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- Wilmington, Vermont
1900
John F. Bassett
John F. Bassett is a native and a familiar figure of Wilmington. He
was born in 1857, one of the five children of J. Newton and Susan Boyd
Bassett. William N. Bassett and Mrs. Ella S. Boyd also reside in Wilmington.
J. Manning Bassett, a soldier of the Civil war, of the Eleventh Vermont Heavy
Artillery, resides at Readsboro; and Mrs. Esther E. Dickenson at Plymouth,
North Dakota.
Jedediah Bassett, great grandfather of the present generation, was one
of the early settlers. His son Jonathan was a life-long resident and
prosperous farmer and reared a family of eleven children, of whom only two are
now living, James of Bennington, formerly a carriage maker, and Frank of
Brattleboro, once a harness maker in Wilmington. John F. and W. N. are now the
only adult male representatives in town of this once numerous famil
John F. Bassett was born and bred upon a farm where he remained until
after he became of age, when he bought the harness business of the estate of
Anson Barber. He was without experience, but engaged a skillful workman from
whom he learned the trade.
Many changes have taken place during the score of years that he has
conducted the harness business at the old stand and only two of the present
merchants are his seniors in business. Mr. Bassett is a skillful and reliable
workman and does a large share of the work in the shop. He has continued to
make heavy harnesses, which he sells on their merits and keeps in stock light
harnesses of his own and other makers. He carries a stock of blankets, robes
and horse furnishings, has the largest and with one exception, the only shop
in the Deerfield Valley and does a good stroke of business, both in sales and
repairs. He owns a good farm in town, also a village farm which he rents. He
has shown much foresight in the investment of confidence and cash in village
real estate and has received good returns on its rise in value by reason of
the advent of the railroad.
Mr. Bassett has given his attention closely and zealously to his
business, although always interested in village prosperity, and has been
financially successful.
John died on the farm in Wilmington.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1857 - 1932 (74 years)